Dr. Alice Says: Healthy Horses Seldom Burp!

by Don Blazer

This book provides everything you need to know to keep your horse healthy and happy. Once you've got a horse, what exactly is it you've got. For example, if your horse were missing a single chromosome, he wouldn't even be a horse. But then, what would he be? What gives your horse is power, and when is he moving right or wrong? Can his dogs bark, and if he has a vocabulary, is he or isn't he talking? Healthy Horses Seldom Burp! provides accurate, dependable coverage of horse shoeing and hoof care to skin and teeth, the purposes for bandages, the value of gelding, instructions for taking your horse's vital signs and a handy reference for annual health protection. In addition you'll find lively and enlightening information on how to detect and deal with everything from thrush, ringbone, sidebone, lameness to laminitis, strongles poison plants, inflammation, worms and colic. Dr. Alice M. Blazer, DVM and certified acupuncturist explains all the medical conditions so well, both you and your horse will know why horses seldom burp. Never stuffy, never pompous, never too technical, this book will be read again and again and will be the reference you grab everytime you have a question.

192 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1999